Mr. Eddie Taaffe:

We are in the middle of an exercise with the Department to quantify exactly how many additional staff will be needed. At the moment, there are 1,100 staff in local authorities engaged in the social housing capital programme. That is a mixture of engineers, architects, technicians, clerks of works, quantity surveyors and administrative staff. The exercise is to see what we need to do to go from the current level of delivery up to the target of 1,200.